Someone hit my wife’s new Jeep today, while it was parked.

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So she drives to work. Just a dusting of snow, nothing to worry about. She parks in the lot at work (the kids HIgh School) like she does every day, in her normal spot.

Mid day she gets a call from the school resoirce officer (a town police officer) telling her that she needs to come to her car in the parking lot that it rolled out of her parking spot and hit another car. She immediately calls me as she is waking outside and tells me this. I ask her how this could have happened. She states maybe she was distracted and left it in neutral???? I explained to her that in a brand new Jeep that is almost impossible as she would have to manually unlock the doors and the radio would not have turned off etc. She gets outside and finds this.............


The police officer looks at her and says your car rolled out of its spot and hit this Jeep. To which she responds, that is not my car, but it is my Jeep and WTH happened???? He proceeds to explain to her that the red impala was in a spot across the way. A student saw it start to roll on its own and proceed to hit her Jeep. The car is in neutral, the radio is on and the ignition is in the accessory position, no keys. She said the police officer just looks baffled.

Then the lady who owns the car comes out and proceeds to ask the cop what happened. He informs her and tells her to move her car. She tried to start in and no dice. She puts it back in park and starts right up, moves it back.


Officer asks the wife what she wants to do. Settle it between the two parties privately of have him write a report. She calls me as I am traveling for work, as usual. I say write a report as at the time I have no idea what we are dealing with. Wife is telling me the taillight is in pieces and on the ground and the bumper is popped off. Cop proceeds to get the info and says if it is over $1000 he has to write a report anyhow (Which I have never heard). Cop says he will get the report done by the end of the day and that both parties are required to notify their insurance companies. Which I think is BS.

She and the other party get called to the office at the end of the day. Officer has the report written. Before he signs it and gives it to them he advises the other party that they may want to see how much damage there is to our vehicle (compared to their deductible with State Farm) because with what he had to put in the report (car was left in neutral) and the video they will likely be found at fault by the insurance companies. But he can only hold report until Friday. Other driver admitted fault as the car was her husbands and she apparently wasn’t familiar that N doesn’t mean P in a Chevy. She is supposed to talk to her husband and let wife know tomorrow.

So poor wifey gets to go to body shop in the am on her day off to get an estimate to fix her new Jeepster. Not a happy camper. If bumper cover is salvageable I imagine it will be well under $1000 but who knows these days.

Bottom line. Put yo car in park in the parking lot people!!!




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